Pediatric Implantable Device Specialist

Intermountain Health • Lehi, UT

2d • $29 - $45 • Onsite

About The Position

This Pediatric Implantable Device Specialist serves to focus exclusively on pediatric cardiac implantable devices within the Primary Children’s Heart Center. This role provides clinical, educational, research and administrative support for the Pediatric Implantable device program including assistance with patient and family education, interdisciplinary coordination and collaboration, and data management. Because this role combines a unique mix of skills, we will partner with the successful candidate to build and strengthen their capabilities through education and hands-on learning. The Heart Center At Intermountain Children’s Health, we’re better together. Working together with the University of Utah, Primary Children’s Hospital is both the flagship children’s facility for Intermountain Health and the pediatric teaching hospital for the University of Utah School of Medicine. This partnership allows for clinical innovation, impactful research initiatives to be identified, quality improvement projects to be supported and in-depth training for our new physicians to be facilitated. In doing so, we feel fortunate in our ability to provide the very best of care for our young patients and their families. The Heart Center at Primary Children’s Hospital is a comprehensive program with high clinical volumes and acuity. We’re the only provider of comprehensive congenital heart disease care to children and young adults within the Mountain West footprint. As a nationally recognized Heart Center program, U.S. News & World Report ranked us 12th in the nation in 2025

Requirements

• Cardiovascular System Proficiency
• Cardiac Rhythm Interpretation
• Communication
• Interpretive Analysis
• Digital Proficiency
• Attention to Detail
• Critical Thinking
• Data Synthesis
• Pediatric Patient Evaluation
• Pediatric Patient Instructional Skills
• BLS or Current PALS Certification (for Children's Hospital employees) within six months of hire.
• Experience in cardiology or with implantable device technology.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• IBHRE (International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners) certification.
• 3+ years of experience with the pediatric cardiac implantable device management.
• Experience with device interrogation software.

Responsibilities

• Meet with patients/parents in clinic during routine follow-up clinic visits as well as in emergent situations; also with patient/parent before and after implant procedures.
• Review findings of device interrogations with provider to ensure that patient devices are programmed and functioning at optimal levels and that all patient/parent questions are answered prior to discharge.
• Ensures each device patient is properly set up with remote transmission capability for monitoring purposes between clinic visits.
• Compiles device data acquired from the transmission of a patient’s remote monitor to an Internet housed database.
• Review with provider to ensure patient device is programmed and functioning at optimal levels
• Respond to phone calls from patients, parents, physicians, and vendors.
• Serve as a liaison between vendors and physicians and be available during procedures to answer questions from these groups.
• Work with physician to optimize device settings based on EKG / Monitor / Device findings.
• Partner with physicians to screen for device complications.
• Reprogram device as indicated.
• Commitment to continuing education in implantable device procedures and processes offered by vendors.
• Maintain device databases.
• Update past/present device and lead information, patient demographics, diagnosis, implanting physician and other pertinent information.
• Generate and screen device reports and provide information to physicians.
• Schedule remote device checks that are completed and transmitted remotely.
• Patient/parent needs.
• Patient/parent education regarding devices, coordinate device implants, enroll patients in remote monitoring, field calls for device related issues from patients, parents, device companies, outside nurses, physician, and dentists inquiring about patient devices.
• Coordination with Industry vendors to provide assistance to physician needs during implantation of devices.
• Based on data received from testing, assist physician to program device at optimal settings prior to discharge.
• Clinic coordination.
• Maintains pacemaker-related equipment by scheduling service times with programmers, and orders supplies.
• Maintain 'advisory and recalled' database from device companies.
• Assist with Outreach Pacemaker Clinics.
• Educate fellows, NP/PAs, and other staff on the utility of implantable devices, the intricacies of the interrogated device data, and the role these devices play in the management of arrhythmia patients.
• Research activities.
• Coordinate EP-related studies and research projects including consents from patients/parents, education on procedures for studies, and fielding phone calls.
• Work with Principal Investigator (PI) to collect data for EP-related studies.
• Collect data and prepare reports for monthly QA and other department meetings.

Benefits

• We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
• Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.
• Intermountain Health’s PEAK program supports caregivers in the pursuit of their education goals and career aspirations by providing up-front tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution. The program offers 100+ learning options to choose from, including undergraduate studies, high school diplomas, and professional skills and certificates. Caregivers are eligible to participate in PEAK on day 1 of employment.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level